On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:59 -0700, Steve wrote: > Linux isn't uber anymore folks. My 10 year old niece runs it > exclusively on her laptop. Her mother is the "sys-admin" for their > home. Neither of these people are really "computer people". My 70 > something year old mother runs her Neuros OSD and even upgraded her > own firmware the other night, she called me and let me know... I'm so > impressed :) > My wife (who owns a Mac incidently), recommended to her girlfriend > that she ditch windows and install Linux.
I have relatives who use Linux too with basically the same results. > Any rebuttals? The thing is that to a business the mail server really isn't a linux or windows mail server it's just a mail server. The OS is completely irrelevant, or should be. The troubles you described, in a business context, seem more a systems administration problem than an OS problem. I really truly believe the problem could have been prevented on any OS and I also believe that similar problems afflict Linux, in a business context. I'm not saying they shouldn't switch, particularly on the server side they probably should. But it would be a mistake to let them think it's going to be easy or cheap. And there really needs to be a contract of some kind with someone or some company that knows what they're doing. Also I don't mean to criticize anyone personally. I've made my share of IT mistakes. Even pushed a few grad students off the deep end... sigh. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
